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: k * 1 - v , " v • ' • / : ' . fe- L*, ,<y%* *< Jk ** >.- NEWS OF ILLINOIS li AC IV lC>nDON ywrwp or 'me ant er rwmA, lhw/remar mpm/com'tte! E~ iH |Copyrt«ht. !•», by the New TorK Harald Company.) <CopTT<irt»t. »li. |qr tk* »**/>jflUan Company. SYNOPSIS. Slam Harnleh. known all through Ala»-»aa "Burning Daylight ." celebrates hJs h birthday with n. crowd of miners at the Circle City Tivol l . The dance leads to heavy gambling, tn which over JlOO.uw i s staked Harnlsh loses his money ana "ms mine but wins the mail contract . He ••tarts on his mal l t r ip with do*s ana • ledge, te l l ing his f r iends that he wM oe <tn the big Yukon gold s t r ike a t the s tar t , ©urnlng Dayl ight makes a sensat ional!} •rapid run across country with the mail , appears r . t the Tlvol! and is now read} to Join Ms f r iends tn a dash to the n <^ f:old f i e l d s 1 V o i d i n g that g o l d w i l l ne ound in the up-r iver dis t r ic t l iarnish t » u y 3 t w o t o n s o f f l o u r , w h i c h h e d e c wii l be worth I ts weight in K o l d _ h" r when he arr ives with his f lour he f in the big f la t desolate . A comrade ™ s£°^~ ers gold and Dayl ight reaps a r ich har- vest . He eoes to Dawson, becomes tn <nost prominent f igure tn the ^ ° • e n d d e f e a t s a c o m b i n a t i o n o f c a p i t a l i s t tn a vast mining deal. Ha returns t civi l izat ion, and. amid the complicat ions of high f inance Da}j ig f inds that he has been led to • n v e* t ' • •eleven mill ions In a manipulated sen m fie goes to New York, and confront ing his dis loyal partners with a revolver le • threatens to ki l l them If h is money returned. They are cowed. 1 f e t \ ' r" • teal lngs and Harnish goes back to San Francisco where he meets his r a , e f>ede Mason, a pret ty * t e I 1^™P h f , !" f < , A?* makes larpe investments and ffets in to political ring For a rest he goes to the Country. Davl lght gets deeper into high •f inance In San Francisco but o f t®" Vj. longing for the s imple l i fe n e a . r lL, oomes him Dede Mason buys a horsttand Daylight meets her In her saddle tripa •One day he asks Dede to go with on one more ride his pnrpose being to «ak her to marry him and they «*nt®r •way. she trying to analyse herfeelng^ Dede tens Daylight that her happiness could not lie with a money manipulator Daylight undertakes to build, up a ***** Industrial community. He is that she marry him and yet hopes to win Iter Davlight falls back Into his old •drinking ways. There ila a fju™Y In th" money market, but Da>Mg"ht tells Dede I ^ A E' ,7 * , mgnri i i ia iuru ^ , . that he Is going to work on a ran^h and •prove to her that he has reformed. Dede «nd Daylight are married at a 'lttle bJVr£" woods hotel. He has come back to whole­ some. natural life, and they go to house­ keeping in a spot close to nature. CHAPTER XXI. But there came the day. one year. In early April, wheg Dede sat In an ^igjr chair on the porch, sewing on certain small garments, while Day- tight read aloud to her It was in the afternoon, and a bright sun was ahlnlng down on a world of new green. Along the Irrigation channels of the vegetable garden streams of water •were flowing, and now and again Day- tight broke off from his reading to run out and change the flow of water. Also, he was teaslngly Interested in the certain small garments on which Dede worked, while Bbe was radiant­ ly happy over them, though at times, when his tender fun was too insistent, •he was rosily confused or affection­ ately resentful. It was a few minutes later that Daylight, breaking off from (lis reading to change the streams of Irrigation, found that the water had eeased flowing. He shouldered a pick and shovel, took a hammer and a pipe- wrench from the tool-house, and re­ turned to Dede on the porch. "1 reckon I'll have to go down and dig the pipe out," he told her. "It's that slide that's threatened all winter. I guess she's come down at last." "Don't you read ahead, now," he warned, as he passed around the tiouse and took the trail that led down <he wall of the canyon. Halfway down the trail, he came vpon the slide. It was a small affair, only a few tons of earth and crum­ bling rock; but, starting from fifty feet above, It had struck the water- pipe with force sufficient to break it At a connection. Before proceeding to work, he glanced up the path of Hie slide, and he saw what made his •yes startle and cease for the mo- neat from questing farther. ' "Hello," he communed aloud, "look who's here." His glance moved on up the steep ttroken surface, and across It from ••Me to side. Here and there, in places, small twisted manzanltas were •rooted precariously, but in the main, •ave for weeds and grasB, that portion of the canyon was bare. There were signs of a surface that had shifted often as the rain poured a flow of rich eroded soil from above over the lip of ^tbe canyon. ' "A true fissure vein, or 1 never saw Wie," he proclaimed softly. Dropping the hammer and pipe- wrench, but retaining pick and shovel, he climbed up the slide to where a vague line of out-Jutting but mostly Boll-covered rock could be seen. It was all but Indiscernible, but his prac­ ticed eye had Sketched the hidden In­ formation which It signified. Here and there, along this wall of the vein, be attacked the crumbling rock with the pick and shoveled the encumber­ ing soil away Several times he ex­ amined this rock. So soft was some of It that he could break It in his An­ gers. Shifting a dozen feet higher up, he again attacked with pick and shoveL And this time, when he rub­ bed the foil from a chunk of rock and looked, he straightened up suddenly, gasping with delight. And then, like a deer at a drinking pool In fear of Its enemies, he flung a quick glance around to see if any eye were gazing upon him. He grinned at tils own foolishness and returned to his exami­ nation of the chunk. A slant of sun­ light fell on it. and It was all aglltter /With tiny specks of unmistakable tree He even climbed over the canyon-Hp to look along the brow of the hill for j signs of the outcrop. But that could watt, and he hurried back to his find. He toiled on In the same mad haste, until exhaustion and an Intolerable ache In his back compelled him to pause He straightened up with even a richer piece of gold-laden quarts. Stooping, the sweat from his forehead had fallen to the ground. It now ran into his eyes, blinding him. He wiped it from bim with the back of his hand and returned to a scrutiny of the gold. It would run thirty thousand to the ton, fifty thousand, anything--he knew that And as be gazed upon the yel­ low lure, and panted for air, and wiped the sweat away, his quick vision leaped and set to work. He saw the spur-track that must run up fr9nft the valley and across the upland pastures, and he ran the grades and built the bridge that would span the canyon, until it was real before his eyes. Across the canyon was the place for the mill, and there he erected it; and he erected, also, the endless chain of buckets, suspended from a cable and operated by gravity, that would cross the canyon to the quartz-crusher. Likewise, the whole mine grew before him and beneath him--tunnels, shafts, and galleries, and hoisting plants. The blasts of the miners were in his ears, and from across the canyon he could hear the roar of the stamps. The hand that beld the lump of quartz was trembling, and there was a tired, nervous palpitation apparently in the pit of his stomach. It came to him abruptly that what he wanted was a drink--whisky, cocktails, anything, a drink. And even then, with this new hot yearning for the alcohol upon him. he heard, faint and far. drifting down the green abyss of the canyon. Dede's voice, crying: -- "Here, chick, chick, chick, chick, chick! Here, chick, chick, chick!" He was astounded at the lapse of time. She had left her sewing on the porch and was feeding the chickens preparatory to getting supper. The afternoon was gone. He could not conceive that be bad been away that long. Again came the call: "Here, chick, chick, chick, chick, chick! Here, chick, chick, chick!" , It was the way she always called-- first five, and then three He had long since noticed it. And from these thoughts of her arose other thoughts that caused a great fear slowly to grow in his face. For It seemed to him that he had almost lost her. Not once had he thought of her In those frenzied hours, and for that much, at least, had she truly been lost to him. He dropped the piece of quartz, slid down the slide, and start­ ed up the trail, running heavily. At the edge of the clearing he eased down and almost crept to a point of vantage whence be could peer out, himself unseen. She was feeding the chickens, tossing to tbem handfuls of grain and laughing at their antics. The sight of her seemed to relieve the panic feat Into wblch be had been flung, and he turned and ran back down the trail. Again he climbed the slide, but this time he climbed higher, carrying the pick and shovel with him. And again he toiled frenzied ly. but this time with a different purpose. He worked artfully, loosing slide after slide of the red soil and sending it streaming down and covering up all he had uncovered, hiding from the light of day the treasure be had dis­ covered. He even went into the woods and scooped armfuls of last year's fallen leaves, which be scattered over the slide. But this he gave up as a vain task, and he sent more slides of soil down upon the scene of bis labor, until no sign remained of the out-jut­ ting walls of the vein. Next he re­ paired the broken pipe, gathered his tools together, and started up the trail. He walked slowly, feeling a great weariness, as of a man who had passed through a frightful crisis. He put the tools away, took a great drink of the water that again flowed through i $ '! "Here, Chick, Chick, Chick, Cfcickl' the pipes, and sat down on the bench by the open kitchen door. Dede was Inside, preparing supper, and the sound of her footsteps gave him a vast content. He breathed the balmy mountain air In great gulps, like a diver fresh-risen from the sea. And, as be drank In the air, be gazed with all his eyeB at the clouds and sky and valley, as if he were drinking In that, too. along with the air. Dede did not know be had come back, and* at times he turned his head and stole glances In at her---at her efficient bands, at the bronze of her brown hair that smouldered with fire wheii she crossed the path of sunshine that streamed through the window, at the promise of her figure that shot through him a pang most strangely sweet and sweetly dear. Hfo heard her approaching the door, and kept his bead turned resolutely toward the valley. And next, he thrilled, as be had always thrilled, when be felt the caressing gentleness of hes fingers through bis hair. "I didn't know you were back." she said. "Was it serious?" "Pretty bad that slide," be answer­ ed. still gazing away and thrilling to her touch. "More serious than 1 reck­ oned. But I've gdt the plan. Do you know what I'm going to do?--I'm go­ ing to plant eucalyptus all over It. They'll hold it. I'll plant tbem thick as grass, so that even a hungry rab­ bit can't squeeze between tbem; and when they get their roots agoing, nothing in creation will ever mors that dirt again.' "Why. Is It as bad as that?' * He shook his head. "Nothing exciting. But I'd sure like to see any blamed old slide get the best of me. that's all. I'm going to seal that slide down so that It'll stay there for a million years. And when the last trump sounds, and Sonoma Mountain and all th#> other mountains pass Into nothingness, that old slide will be still a-standing there, held up by the roots." V •-•V i* t k!| 1 Is Dean or AM Indians #- Void. n ... 4 Prom the grass roots down." be Sitting Elk, Mighty Warrior Who Never Killed White Man, Is Old­ est Redman. Oldest of all Indians in the United States, Sitting Elk, former chief of tne Ogallalla Sioux, is visiting in Denver, the guest of the white man. against whom be always refused to make war. For almost a century be has been a leader among his people, but, wiser than other chiefs, be early realized that the red man was doomed and at every opportunity be counseled peace with the palefaces. He could well afford to do so. tor his people knew be was no cotfapd. "1 have never killed a white man," he proudly boasts, "but I have fought many battles, and 1 have done many brav} deeds in my long life of ninety- , six years. 1 was but seventeen when thoughts of any Immediate Journey to the happy hunting grounds Bright of eye, keen of mind, the old warrior dons paint and feathers for bis appearance with the younger members of bis tribe in the headlong dashes across the amphitheater at the stock yards, and rides with an aban­ don which defies the spectator to sin­ gle bim from the reckless redskins who have but one-fourth his years to their credit. He passed his arm around her and pulled ber down on his knees. "Say, little woman, you sure miss • lpt by living here on the ranch- music, and theaters, and sucb things. Don't you ever have a hankering to drop it all and go back?" So great was his anxiety that he dared not look at ber, and when sbe laughed and shook her bead he ( was aware of a great relief. Also, he noted the undimlnshed youth that rang through that same old-time boyish laugh of hers. "Say," be said, with sudden fierce­ ness, "don't you go fooling around that slide until after I get the trees in aud rooted. It's mighty dangerous, and 1 sure can't afford to lose you now." He drew her lips to his and kissed her hungrily and passionately. "What a lover!" she said; and pride in hlip and In ber own womanhood was in her voice. "Look at that, Dede." He removed one encircling arm and swept it In a wide gesture over the valley and the mountains beyond. "The Valley of tbe Moon--a good name, a good name. Do you know, when I look out over it all. and think of you and of all ft means, it kind of make? me ache in the throat, and I have things In my heart I can't find the words to say, and 1 have a feeling that 1 can almost understand Browning and those other high-flying poet-fellows. Look at Hood Mountain there, just where the sun's striking. It was down In that crease that we found the spring." "And that was the uigui you dldot milk the cows till ten o'clock." sb« laughed. "And If you keep me here much longer, supper won't be any earlier than It was that night" Both rose from the bench, and Day­ light caught up the milk-pall from the nail by the door. He paused a mo­ ment longer to look out over the val­ ley. "It's sure grand," he said. "It's sure grand," she echoed, laugh­ ing joyously at bim and with him and herself and all the world, as sbe passed In through the door. And Daylight, like the old man be once had met, himself went down tbe hill through the fires of sunset with a milkpail on his arm. THE END. h* nwnnff J ," --1 1 "ayiaia ana killed my first enemy. "?l»urface yielding That was a very brave deed. Since * Sometimes he started ssaall slides ^^ klU°d i^iUhahimVetoddU.P. hlS rVnd 8ut,ng Elk 18 * total abstainer. He 1 ®mokes dgarettes, but insists he bas none of the other bad habits of the was swept fifty feet down the can yon-slde; but he floundered and 6cram- itled up again wltbc^t pausing for t>reath He bit upon quartz that was mo rotten that it was almost like clay. «ad here tbe gold was richer than #*er It was a veritable treasure jgfeamber For a hundred feet up and tewn tt* traced tlMl walls of tbe vein. white man. He la childless, the Uit of his line, but he expects to live for many years more--to be hale and hearty long after he has passed the century mark. Sitting Elk moves tall and stately among his kfnsmeB. and puffs his pipe wtth a complacency unruffled by Bibles Furnished Free. Young couples who furnish their flats under the direction of a Third avenue furniture bouse are bound to begin housekeeping is pious frame of mind. For every $60 worth of furni­ ture they buy, either for cash or oo the installment plan, tbe dealer makes them a present of a Bible. "I just got in a case of fine Bibles yesterday," be said, "and as Boon as they are gone I shall lay in another supply. Before I went Into the furni­ ture business I was a book agent. The peeps 1 got then Into people's homes showed a deplorable lack of Bibles, especially among tbe young couples. 1 did not have much chance to rem­ edy the defect then, for 1 was not handling Bibles and anyhow I wouldn't have been In a position to give them away, but since I have gone into this business 1 can afford to throw in a Bible with every f 50 purchase."--New York Times. Womankind Her Check. Sbe was brisk and full of business as sbe bustled into the bank, stepped to a desk, Indorsed a cbeck and then handed It in at the paying teller's window. "You see, I've Indorsed It and come to the right window tbe very first time," she said with a beaming smlle- "We women are getting to know • little about banking." "That'B very true, indeed, madam." said tbe teller, "but tbis check la not signed by any one." "Well, I just got It from my bus- band. He's In Chicago. Here's hU letter, telling that he is enclosing it." "That's all good enough, mad am, but the cbeck itself must be signed." "Here's his name on the letter. Can't you cut It off and paste tt on the check?" It took the teller some time to ex­ plain and be still wonders !f *be doesn't think he just didn't want bet to have the money. Rest In 8olltude. The f.rst requisite In resting 1® to be alone. Every human being is more or less of an irritation. One must get away to his room or to the woods. As near as possible one must secure soli­ tude and silence; for It Is In the heart of what shallow people call loneliness t»iat there Is found the fountain of re­ freshment and a new birth of lay Is Ufa Chicago.--Samuel Baum, a con­ vention visitor from Waterloo, la., wag surprised when a young womatr rushed up to him at South Wabash avenue and Congress street and threw ber arms about bis neck, crying: "Oh, yotf dear daddy. I'm so glad to see you." Baum, who is forty years old, was too surprised to reply for a few moments, as he knew none of the fair •ex in Chicago. Finally he found hie voice, thought of his wife at home, and said, coldly: "I guess you have made a mistake. I don't believe 1 ever saw you before." The young woman excused herself for ber mis­ take and her display of affection, then turned and walked away. Ten min­ utes later Baum missed a roll of bills amounting to $100 which be carried In his vest pocket Chicago.--Joseph Ferleckl, a cafe owner at 1T00 West Erie street, and one of his four patrons were wounded when four robbers entered the place and attempted to rob them. The robbers, after ordering the men to hold up their hands, became alarmed when one in the group at the bar moved and a half a dozen shots w^ere flred by the intruders. The robbers, without waiting to learn the results of the shots, fled from the saloon. One of the bullets struck the top of Fe­ rleckl 's nose and took a small piece of skin off of It, then broke the mir­ ror at the back of the bar. George Cloczeon, 729 Keith street, one of the customers, was wounded In the right arm. Both he and Feriecki were giv­ en medical aid. Havana.--The preliminary trial of James Mlbbs, the confessed slayer of his brother, was held before Justice Ludham. The prisoner will be held without bond to await the grand Jury that will meet in November. At the hearing Mlbbs admitted the kill­ ing, but claims he shot his brother In self-defense. The prisoner nearly broke down during his testimony, say­ ing: "I tfld not aim to kill him, but only wanted to scare him." Decatur.--A. C. Whitehead was In­ stantly killed and Francis C. Shep­ herd was almost fatally burned at Forsyth, a station Just north of Decatur, when wires of the Central Union Telephone company, for which they were working, became crossed wltii high-tension wires of the Illinois Traction System. Shepherd may lose a leg from the accident. Both are De­ catur men. Petersburg.--Dr. William Cheany left for Chicago and carried with him the brains of a dog that had bitten Miss Katherine Miles, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James S. Miles, south of town. Miss Katherine, whlle'out riding, dismounted from h^r pony at the house of a neighbor, Mr. Bolster, and the dog simply grazed the ankle with Its teeth. Bloomlngton.--In order to enable the city authorities to co-operate with the state, the secretary of state Is sending to each chief of po­ lice a monthly report, showing the names of automobile owners in the county and the number of their license. Upon receipt of this report the police can check up those who failed to renew their license. Bloomlngton. -- The Illinois Trac­ tion system announces awards for members of the malntenance-of- way department turning In the fewest number of demerit marks prior to Oc­ tober 31 next. The foremen of the sec­ tion gang wilJ receive $20 and each member of the gang $6. Kankakee. -- Mrs. George Hulbert of Reddlck was run over and killed here by an automobile driven by Miss Dolly Wadlelgh. Peoria.--The twenty-third annu­ al national convention of the Travelers' Protective association went, on record In a stcrm'y session In con­ demnation of the parcel post. The vote was virtually unanimous. The convention favored changing election day from Tuesday to Monday, one-cent postage, revision of bankruptcy laws and the excess baggage bill, and In­ dorsed the claim of heirs of Dr. Theo­ dore Ruggles Timby, Inventor of tbe revolving turret, against the govern­ ment. Springfield.--Police matrons are a part of the police system and come under the provisions of the po­ lice pension act. This Is the decision of the supreme court reversing the cir­ cuit court of Cook county and re­ manding with directions the case brought by Matilda Lyons against the police pension board of Chicago. Springfield.--The Illinois supreme court held that labor unions have the right to strike if non-union employees are retained by employers. Shelbyvllle.--The finding of a dead Infant when they raised their "trot" line to see If any fish had been caught during the night was the harrowing experience of Charlie Rhoads, Walter Brophy and Tom Tull. The line had been cast 100 feet downstream from tbe C. ft E. I. bridge and It is gener­ ally supposed that the remains of the Infant were cast into the river from tbe bridge, Qlencoe.--Mrs. Russel Edwards and two sons, all residing In Qlencoe, were found dead with the gas turned on. Quincy.--Chaddock college at Quln- cy has sold its present buildlngB and Ig going to move to new quarters some smaller than the ones recently occupied. Rev. A. A. White of this city declined to continue as trustee, and Miss Alverta Simpson resigned the presidency on account of III health. Macomb.--J. Ross Mickey Of Ma­ comb was elected supreme master of the Mystic Workers of the World in their annual convocation had recently in Milwaukee. 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